From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com>,
Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>,
Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: mwifiex: fix large amsdu packets causing firmware hang
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:02:23 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160818130223.AE95961C2C@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1469098824-8031-1-git-send-email-akarwar@marvell.com>
Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> wrote:
> From: Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com>
>
> Sometimes host prepares and downloads a large amsdu packet to firmware
> which leads to a memory corruption in firmware.
> The reason is __dev_alloc_skb() may allocate larger buffer than required
> size. This patch solves the problem by checking "adapter->tx_buf_size"
> instead of relying on skb_tailroom().
>
> Signed-off-by: Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Thanks, 1 patch applied to wireless-drivers.git:
c81396f3da22 mwifiex: fix large amsdu packets causing firmware hang
--
Sent by pwcli
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9241469/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-18 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-21 11:00 [PATCH] mwifiex: fix large amsdu packets causing firmware hang Amitkumar Karwar
2016-07-21 14:48 ` Kalle Valo
2016-07-21 14:55 ` Amitkumar Karwar
2016-08-18 13:02 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20160818130223.AE95961C2C@smtp.codeaurora.org \
--to=kvalo@codeaurora.org \
--cc=akarwar@marvell.com \
--cc=cluo@marvell.com \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=nishants@marvell.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox